Speculative Internet Futures

Through a series of hypotheses, this Speculative Internet Futures Project aims to develop three conceptual Futures experiments of what the Internet looks like and could be. Drawing inspiration from dystopian writers and thinkers, I have created a digital systems map of three separate worlds:

  1. A world in which Quantum Machine Learning replaces the binaries of standard computing’s knowledge graphs;
  2. A nuclear-powered world of climate emergency in which Internet data disintegrates beyond the conceptions of human language and thought;
  3. And a utopian view of what knowledge optimization might look like in a world where AGI is actually empowered to be intelligent.


As is the case of Internet space, the construction of the Speculative Internet Futures Project is based on digital architecture. Its primary manifestation is a website with embedded visualizations that can be translated into an infinite number of display possibilities, including on paper. By distilling complexity and democratizing access to Futures conversations, my objective is to combine the disciplines of systems mapping and manifesto writing to produce data visualizations of three speculative Internet futures that both mirror and reject our current Internet reality.

Katya Danziger
tech / ai, digital media, interactive
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Katya is a Russian-American Tech Design Governance practitioner. She is a full merit scholarship candidate at Parsons School of Designand co-author of the Future of International Cooperation Report 2024. Katya will be commencing graduate studies in Global Tech Governance at Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the fall. 

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